Australian Election Post - ABC
It is a contiguous cartogram as a whole, yet non-contiguous on the display.
Initial Map - AU 2022 Election
Hexmap
Non-contiguous display
Election details for each state
Goal -> To obtain a similar output
by Stephanie Kobakian, Dianne Cook, and Earl Duncan
Relevant R package: sugarbag (github)
Maps may illustrate and lead to misunderstanding or misleading statical information display.
Example:
Possible solutions: alternative cartograms based on the orignial geographical map
Output from the
sugerbagpackage on AU Census data
geogrid (github)C++ -> core calculating algorithm for
minimizing the total distance between the centroid of every original
geography and its new centroid on the grid (Hungarian
algorithm) + R
Example: UK - London boroughs
Example: US States